Canadian woman speaks in new accent after brain stroke


	Canadian woman speaks in new accent after brain stroke

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7-17-2008 9:03 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/3c3c64b1-a7e0-4fe1-acd9-7f08fd36bfc7/E298BDB2-7E81-4041-A7BD-F7B57C6485BF/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://in.news.yahoo.com/43/20080704/938/thl-canadian-woman-speaks-in-new-accent.html" href="http://in.news.yahoo.com/43/20080704/938/thl-canadian-woman-speaks-in-new-accent.html" style="font-size: 11px;">in.news.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://in.news.yahoo.com/43/20080704/938/thl-canadian-woman-speaks-in-new-accent.html"><P class="first">Toronto, July 4 (IANS) In a rare medical development that has neurologists fascinated, a Canadian woman has acquired a new accent after suffering a brain stroke.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://in.news.yahoo.com/43/20080704/938/thl-canadian-woman-speaks-in-new-accent.html"><P>Fifty-year-old Rosemary Dore of Windsor, 370 km from Toronto, suffered a stroke in the left half of her brain about two years ago, damaging the areas related to production of speech. After the stroke, according to the July issue of the Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences, she started speaking with an east coast Canadian accent despite having never lived there.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://in.news.yahoo.com/43/20080704/938/thl-canadian-woman-speaks-in-new-accent.html"><P>Researchers at McMaster University in Hamilton near Toronto, who analysed her speech, called this puzzling medical phenomenon foreign-accent syndrome (FAS). They said it arose from neurological damage suffered by the brain during the stroke.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://in.news.yahoo.com/43/20080704/938/thl-canadian-woman-speaks-in-new-accent.html"><P>Since there are fewer than 20 such cases reported so far around the world, Humphreys wondered whether FAS might be underreported.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/E298BDB2-7E81-4041-A7BD-F7B57C6485BF/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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